On 2015-05-02, Markus Rosjat <ros...@ghweb.de> wrote: > okay it seems dovecot runs root and not as the _dovecot user so applying > a login class for the dovecote group only helps if you add root to it > and nor it seems to start properly.
How are you starting Dovecot? The login class mechanism is only used when started with rcctl or /etc.rc.d/dovecot. > So lets see how far we get to configure ldap with it. This is the same as on other OS. >> 2. is it worth the effort trying to get sendmail (the ldap flavour) >> installed or should I just skip it for >> a different program? Use whichever MTA works best for you, there are several with LDAP support.